Article February 16, 1924 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Bliss Knapp , Horace C. Jenkins, Arnold F. Fylpaa, W. Barrett, Josephine Hidy

Boston, Mass. (The Mother Church).—Introducing Peter V. Ross, a Christian Science lecturer, to his audience, Bliss Knapp spoke as follows:—

Many people think of their problems as just so many errors confronting them; whereas the real problems of life require for their solution the understanding of that truth which makes man free. So a Christian Scientist learns from our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 201) by Mary Baker Eddy, "The way to extract error from mortal mind is to pour in truth through flood-tides of Love."

Once, when a boy, I found myself baffled by a problem in arithmetic, and I turned to my father for help. I hoped he would take my pencil and do the work while I looked on. Instead of that, he remained seated at the farther end of the room, and asked me to read the rule. I had read it many times already; but he insisted that I read it again. Then he asked me to tell him in my own words just what the rule said. That done, he calmly remarked, "Now do exactly what the rule says." There seemed to be little consolation in that, but when I obeyed his loving counsel, my problem was solved.

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